Female couples incubate eggs, raise chicks
(NEWSER) - The good news is that mates in a famous Hawaiian albatross colony are faithful for life. The more interesting news is that one third of those couples are female only. "They were supposed to be icons of monogamy. But I wouldn't assume that what you're looking at is a male and a female," said biologist LIndsay Young, who made the surprise "gay" discovery. The laysan albatross, which lives for up to 70 years, typically mates with the same partner each year when it returns to the Kaena Point breeding colony in northwestern Oahu. More»
